Image #XLN-5: Measurements in progress near the Xilingol grassland site, China. (Lindsey Christensen, Colorado State University, and Han Yuan Hong, Institute of Botany, Beijing, are detemining ground cover by species. Typical steppe grassland dominated by Leymus chinense, Baiinxele Farm, Inner Mongolia, 43.82 N 116.68 E; photograph taken August 1997 by Dr. M.B. Coughenour, Colorado State University, USA).